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L -- FOLLOW-ON PROGRAM SUPPORT, STORAGE, ASSEMBLY, LAUNCH SERVICES, AND INCREMENTAL CLOSEOUT FOR THE TITAN SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE PROGRAM POC Contract Negotiator, Capt Dennis Groseclose (310) 363-3401; Contracting Officer, Ms Danelle Beach, (310) 363-6339. FOLLOW-ON PROGRAM SUPPORT, STORAGE, ASSEMBLY, LAUNCH SERVICES, AND INCREMENTAL PROGRAM CLOSEOUT FOR THE TITAN SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE PROGRAM. The Titan System Program Office (Titan SPO) intends to issue an RFP for the follow-on program support, storage, assembly, launch services, and incremental program closeout for the Titan Launch Vehicle Program. The Titan Launch Vehicle program consists of five configurations of the Titan IV launch vehicle and one configuration of Titan II launch vehicle. The proposed contract will provide program support to the current Titan production, storage, and vehicle assembly operations. Additionally, the contract will provide launch services for the Titan program at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), CA and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), FL. Finally, the contract will provide incremental program closeout for the entire Titan program. The proposed contract does not include any new hardware production, research and development, or program studies. The anticipated contract award date is 1 Oct 95. The proposed contract is for a period of performance of eight years with an unpriced option for an additional four years. Under the current Titan program, Martin Marietta Technologies, Inc. is the prime contractor responsible for production, storage, assembly, and launch services for Titan launch vehicles. Program support includes the engineering, logistics, business management, quality control, safety, and other non-touch labor required to support the Titan program. Storage includes all effort required to store Titan vehicles after production prior to government launch requirements. Vehicle assembly includes the effort required to bring Titan vehicles out of storage, prepare the vehicles for shipment to the launch sites, and conduct vehicle assembly operations. Launch services tasks include receipt, inspection, final assembly, test, payload integration, and actual launch of the remaining Titan vehicles. Incremental program closeout includes, but is not limited to, those tasks associated with disposition of government furnished property and equipment, special tooling, special test equipment, remaining supplies, and the orderly closure of program facilities. The contractor is responsible for all of these functions on major program products such as the liquid fueled rocket core, the liquid rocket engines, the solid rocket motors, the Centaur upper stage, and mission unique payload fairings for each vehicle launched. The contractor is responsible for the maintenance of critical aerospace ground equipment (AGE) systems. Additionally, extensive computer hardware and software support services are required to operate and maintain launch related computer systems. In accordance with FAR 6.302-1, the Government intends to award this contract on a sole-source basis because there is only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The intended source for this contract action is Martin Marietta Technologies, Inc., Denver, Colorado. See Numbered Note 22. (0157)

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